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1.500.000

People lost their lives

On April 24, 1915, the first phase of the Armenian massacres began with the arrest and murder of hundreds of intellectuals, mainly from Constantinople (Istanbul in modern day Turkey). The second phase of the massacre was with conscription of some 60,000 Armenian men into the general Turkish army, who were later disarmed and killed by their Turkish fellowmen. The third phase of the genocide was through massacres, deportations and death marches made up of women, children and the elderly into the Syrian deserts. During those marches hundreds and thousands were killed, raped by Turkish soldiers, gendarmes and Kurdish mobs. Others died of starvation, epidemic disease and exposure to the elements. And tens of thousands were forcibly converted to Islam. Finally, the fourth phase of the Armenian genocide appeared with the total denial of the Turkish government of the mass killings and elimination of the Armenian nation on its homelands. Despite the ongoing international recognition of the Armenian genocide – Turkey has not accepted and fought the acceptance of the genocide by any means.